Device for holding and shaping long tapering stock



March 14, 1950 F, BNNINGER 2,500,735

DEVICE FOR HOLDING AND SHAPNG LONG TAPERING 'STOCK A WWW March 14, 1950 F. BNNINGER 2,500,735

DEVICE FOR HOLDING AND SHAPINO LONG TAPERING STOCK 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Original Filed OGb. 26, 1945 Patented Mar. 14, 1950 DEVICE FOR HOLDING AND SHAPING LONG TAPERING STOCK Fritz Bnninger, Zurich, Switzerland Original application October 26, 1945, Serial No.

1947, Serial N0. 739,498

2 Claims. l

The present invention relates to a device for producing' wooden rods especially for the manufacture of fishing rods, ski sticks and the like, having a horizontal table, a milling cutter vertically adjustable thereto, a slide movable along said table, a beam-like carrier inclinable length- Wise and flXedly adjustable to various positions, with two clamping strips arranged on said carrier at either side of its longitudinal middle plane for holding the workpiece.

This application is a division of my copending application Serial No. 624,657, iiled October 26, 1945.

' The accompanying drawing shows a preferred arrangement for shaping the rods.

Fig. l is an end elevation of a special milling machine seen in the direction of arrow I indicated in Fig. 2,

Fig. 2 represents a side view of the special milling machine,

Fig. 3 is a lateral view of a nished wooden rod,

Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional view of the wooden rod seen in the direction of arrow A of Fig. 3,

Fig. 5 shows a cross-section through the slide or carriage oi the milling machine, taken on the line VII-VII of Fig. 6,

Fig. 6 is a top View of the carriage shown in Fig. 5,

Fig. 7 is an enlarged cross section of the carriage, taken on the line IX-IX of Fig. 5,

Figs. 8, 9, 10 show three stages in the profiling of the wooden rods,

Fig. 11 is an enlarged detail section of Fig. 5,

Fig. 12 is an enlarged detail section of Fig. 6.

Referring to the annexed drawings, numeral I designates the column of a special milling machine having arranged thereon a horizontal table 2 with a saddle 3 in which, parallel therewith, a slide or carriage 4 is supported being movable in longitudinal direction of the table 2 and adapted to serve as support for a beam-shaped carrier 5 which at one end is oscillatable in a perpendicular plane about a horizontal pivot 3 on slide 4. At the opposite end the carrier 5 has an inclination 1 resting on a wedge 8. The latter can be displaced in longitudinal direction of the slide 4 by means of a screw spindle I anchored in a flange 9 of said slide to enable raising and lowering of the left side extremity of the carrier shown in Fig. 5. The latter can be fastened in any position of the slide 4 by means of two screws II, the inclined portion 1 of carrier 5 being thereby pressed against the wedge 8. The two clamp- Divided and this application April 4,

ing strips l2 and I3, respectively, are arranged on carrier 5 at either side of the longitudinal middle plane (Fig. 6). At various points of the carrier 5 and crosswse toit, screw spindles I4, Iii having rightand left-handed threads are disposed, each of them engaging two nuts I5 provided with studs I5 which enter bores in the clamping strips I2, I3. The nuts of spindle I4 are so dirnensioned as to be guided with slide t in a recess of carrier 5 which receives the threaded spindle. On all other spindles I4', however, the nuts I5 are located with a certain lateral clearance in their appropriate recesses of carrier 5. Onto the sides of the clamping strips I2, I3 facing each other, holding strips I1 and I8 (Figs. 8-10) are detachably xed by screws I9. Bolts 20 (Fig. 1l) are anchored to the clamping strips I2, I 3 and guided in slots 2l of carrier 5, each of them carrying at its lower end a compression spring 22 which tends to urge downwards the bolts for iitting the clamping strips I2, I3 to the surface of slide 4.

The laterally outstanding ends of the spindles I4 engage each an externally threaded (23) sleeve 24 (Fig. 12) in which the spindle is revolubly supported. The sleeve 24 is seated in a threaded bore of a plate 25 screwed fast to carrier 5 and has at its outer end the radial bores 26 for receiving a bar serving as key by means of which the sleeve 24 can be screwed forwards or backwards according to the rotary direction. In the desired position the threaded sleeve 24 can be secured by a lock-nut 21. This arrangement enables a displacement of the whole spindle i4 together with nuts I5 and clamping strips I2, I3 across the carrier 5 to align them with the perpendicular middle plane of the milling cutter. By turning the handles 28 on spindles I4, the clamping strips I2, I 3 can either be moved towards each other or spaced apart according to the rotary direction.

Numeral 29 (Figs. l and 2) marks a support with a perpendicular saddle 30 arranged on table 2 of the milling machine. On this saddle a slide 3| is mounted being vertically displaceable by handwheel 32 with respect to the plane of table 2. In slide 3l a horizontal arbor 33 is journaled which at one end carries a milling cutter 34, while the other end is over belt 35 in driving connection with an electric motor 36. In the milling plane, to the right and left of the cutter, resilient pressure rollers 31, 38 are arranged to urge the workpiece fed thereunder against the clamping strips I2, I3 or holding strips I1, I8.

The manufacture of conical hexagonal rods suitable for making fishing-rods is as follows.

may be seen from Fig. 4, by dash-and-dots, a crude square wooden rod is used.

The Work is at rst, as visible in Fig. 8, placed between the clamping strips I2, I3, and xed between the holding strips I1, I8 by tightening the screw spindles I4, I4'. By adjustment of the screw spindle -I0 'and'shifting ofthe'wedgeY tithe`r carrier is' subsequentlyY brought t'o a position i1 which corresponds to the required conicality. A

plain milling cutter is mounted on arbor 33 asi,l

indicated in Fig. 1. By operating thehandwheel 32 the cutter is brought to the proper adjustmentover the workpiece, whereupon thev electric motor` 36 is switched on. The slide 4 together witlfr carrier 5, clamping strips I2,y I3 and the xed workpiece is fed under the cutterin'the-fdirection of arrow I (see Fig. 2). During this first stage the workpiece is given the Sectional form of a square wedge. The slide is then returned to its:A starting position and upon slackening the spindles I4 and I4 the workpiece is removed from the holding strips Iz?, I8, turned 90 about its,

longitudinal axis, andin'this position again vin serted between the holding strips I'I, I8 as indi-` cated by dash-and-dot lines in Fig. 9. Now the plain cutter used at rst is replaced by a sec-` tional cutter having on its contour a V-shaped groove whose facesenclose an angle of 120. The cutter is adjusted to zthe proper height relative to the workpiece; Which'is again fed thereunder l in the direction of'arrow I indicated in Fig. 2, whereby the topzsideof'thelwooden workpiecejis proiiledvto theA hexagonal shape as shown by. dashand-dots in Fig. 9. Uponv resetting the slide 'iv to its starting positiongthe holdingstripsji'l, I8y are loosenedfrom the-workpiece by turning the spindles I4 and M. .The'xworkpiece is.Y again taken out from the holding-'strips I1., I8, turned; 180 about its longitudinal: axis andereplaced: bel tween theholdi'ng. strips-IVI, Irfwiththe profiled.,

face turned downwards. f .Thereby the.v workpiecerests with its two `profiledifacesf-onrshouldersv 134 (Fig. 9) extendingyalong the holding strips..

After having thus set the workpiece'betweenthe'r holding strips, it is .'againfclamped byturning the screw 'spindles I4, I4?. Upon rreadjustment -of I the height of the cutter aboveithe'workpiece.and

off the angle 'of inclination'of ith'e kcarrier f5; the: slide aisied afreshunder the cutter,:whereby:th^e``v` last face ofv the workpiece becomes: proledx'as shownby 'dash-and-dotsvinfFiggll);`

What I claimiis:

1. rThe inlprovenientfcomprisingfafreciprocablei clamping device vadapted iin association with la vertically adjustable cutting headfor producing longitudinally tapered` wooden. rods` such as ski.;V

sticks, shingv rods and the like, .which` rods-arey polygonal incrosssection, which device cornprises in combination: la generally horizontal guideway; a longitudinally reciprocable slide disposed in said guideway in operative alignment with the cutting head; a longitudinally split carrier for the wooden rod, hingedly connected to said slide at one end thereof; a longitudinally adjustable, wedge-shaped abutment member mounted betweenthe slidek andi carrier at rvtheir other endywhereby thewinclin'ation of the carrier may be set a predetermined amount; means between .said split portions of the carrier for detachably vengaging varied widths of rods therebetween Yalong 'their entire length; and other means for adjusting the mutual displacement of the split .portionsirom van axial line and for progressively varying said displacement along the length so 'as to accommodate'a tapered rod, said other means-including a plurality of operating spindles provided with right and left hand threads on their respective ends, transversely journaled jointly in said split portions and spaced apart along the longitudinalaxisthereof.

2. An article ofimanufacture ofthe character.' described comprising: av longitudinally reciprocal.

slide .adapted tobe operated alongV a` guidewayin juxtaposition to a cuttingA head; a longitudinally split carriervforwooden rods, hingedly'connected to said slide,at'oneendnthereof; a longitudinally adjustable, wedge-shaped abutment member mounted betweenthe slide and carrier at their other end, whereby the; inclination of the carrierv may be set afpredetermined amount; .means between said split-portions of the carrier for def tachably engaging varied widths of rods therebetween yalong their entire length; and other means for adjusting the mutual displacement ofv the-split portions from an axial line and for progressively varying. said displacement along the length so as to accommodate alJ tapered rod,v

said otherzmeans includinga plurality ofoperating spindles provided with right and-,lef-t -hand threadsv on their .respectivefends, transverseli7 journaled jointly in said split portions and spaced.;

apart along;theilongitudinalfaxis thereof.

FRITZ BANNINGER.

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